(n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
(v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
(v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
(v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
(v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The metacercaria-detecting buoy method was applied to rice fields fertilized with cattle manure for 7 days in mid-summer, as well as to fields located closely to cattle pens, but not fertilized.
(2) Spending, though, has continued to rise in line with Labour's plans, buoyed by growing expenditure on unemployment benefit as the jobless total has risen by over 600,000 in the past year.
(3) Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, described the Christmas period as a disappointing close to the year for retailers, who expected the “underlying momentum of an improving consumer environment buoyed by rising real incomes, low inflation and low unemployment” to feed into higher sales growth.
(4) Supporters of a change in the law were buoyed last month when voters in the US state of Washington decided to legalise assisted suicide, joining their state to a list of safe havens for the practice which includes the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the US state of Oregon.
(5) Expectations for next month’s climate summit have been buoyed by fruitful talks held last year in Beijing, where China pledged to bring its emissions to a peak “around 2030”, and the US said it would cut its emissions by 26-28% of their 2005 level by 2025 .
(6) Cory Bernardi and George Christensen to raise funds for anti-Islam group Read more Returning from New York buoyed by the election of Donald Trump, Bernardi said in late November he realised “I have to be a part of that change, perhaps even in some way a catalyst for it”.
(7) He was buoyed by the experience of lifting Great Britain back to the top of world team tennis, but the effort clearly took its toll.
(8) Analysts have warned in recent weeks that al-Qaida in Iraq is regaining strength, its recruiting in the mainly Sunni northern and western provinces buoyed by a political crisis that has triggered widespread protests against the Shia-dominated government of Nouri-al Maliki by Sunni protesters.
(9) The richest Briton in the list remains the Duke of Westminster, who has dropped one place to fourth but seen his worth rise by £250m to £7bn – partly because foreign billionaires have buoyed the London property market, which accounts for a sizeable chunk of his empire.
(10) Senior party figures were buoyed by new YouGov polling that showed support for Labour had gone up.
(11) But after being mauled in the media for sartorial crimes – including a bright pink blazer and white shirt adorned with heart motifs – Hatoyama will be buoyed by the news that a Shanghai-based shirt-maker is selling copies of his most infamous garment as a tribute to his "individuality" .
(12) The self-declared sovereign Yidindji government has been buoyed by a “diplomatic exchange” with a senior Australian government minister who offered the first commonwealth recognition of its leaders at an event on their traditional country in north Queensland .
(13) Private developers have been buoyed by the first stage of the government's Help to Buy scheme, which offers buyers a 20% interest-free loan to enable them to purchase a new-build property with just a 5% deposit.
(14) The legs were floated with a small buoy as previously described (Toussaint et al., J. appl.
(15) Despite its own underwhelming performance at the local elections, Labour was buoyed as a new poll by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft showed that Ed Miliband's party was 12% ahead of the Tories in 26 key marginal battlegrounds.
(16) The wave was measured at a special buoy off the Donegal coast on Tuesday as a force ten storm raged.
(17) Buoyed by the oil and gas companies and fossil-fuel-funder mega-donors that increasingly bankroll their campaigns, most prominent Republican politicians have either denied that climate change exists or refused to stake out a clear position, citing their personal lack of scientific knowledge.
(18) It is understood the boats have been fitted out with fuel, food and water, navigation equipment, life jackets and life buoys for return journeys.
(19) While the City was buoyed by the profits rise, customer groups were concerned.
(20) The market has been buoyed in recent months by increased mortgage lending, the apparent result of the government's Funding for Lending scheme which launched in August 2012.
Float
Definition:
(v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
(v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
(v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
(v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
(v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
(v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
(v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
(v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
(v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
(v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
(v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
(v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
(v. i.) A coal cart.
(v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
(n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
(n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
(v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
(v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
(v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
(v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few free-floating cells could be observed in the lumen of this intermediate portion, most of which were macrophages.
(2) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
(3) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(4) Type II cells cultured on floating feeder layers in medium containing 1% CS-rat serum and 10(-5) M hydrocortisone plus 0.5 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP exhibited significantly increased incorporation of [14C]acetate into total lipids (238% of control).
(5) Nonetheless some strange theories have been floated.
(6) Lymphocytes with low floating density lyse NK-sensitive target cells and leukemic B-lymphocytes, increase the lytic activity with respect to blasts of K-562 line under the effect of alpha-interferon.
(7) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(8) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(9) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
(10) See kajakkompaniet.se and langholmenkajak.se for information Swimming, Liljeholmsbadet Stockholmers swim all year round at the floating bath on lake Mälaren in Hornstull on Södermalm.
(11) Two hundred six floating fusions were performed, of which 184 were available for follow-up.
(12) You float a tiny distance above, suspended by the repulsion between atoms.
(13) My Paul Nuttalls routine has floated back up the U-bend | Stewart Lee Read more Nuttall told Marr that “nothing should be a sacred cow in British politics.
(14) In 2011, a young sperm whale was found floating dead off the Greek island of Mykonos.
(15) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
(16) In heavily mineralized bone matrix, the periodic pattern of collagen fibrils was retained, and the electron density of mineralized matrix in freeze-substituted and unstained sections which had been floated on ethylene glycol was greater than that encountered in sections processed in aqueous reagents.
(17) SCLC variant lines could further be divided into (a) biochemical variant lines having variant biochemical profile but retaining typical SCLC morphology and growth characteristics; and (b) morphological variant (SCLC-MV) lines having variant biochemical profile, altered morphology (features of large cell undifferentiated carcinoma) and altered growth characteristics (growth as loosely attached floating aggregates, relatively short doubling times and cloning efficiencies).
(18) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(19) Comparative lipid-binding studies with dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine gave complexes for native and synthetic apoprotein which floated at the same density after ultracentrifugation in KBr gradients and had virtually the same lipid:protein ratios.
(20) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.